rainless
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- adjective
- /ˈreɪnləs/
:
sin lluvia
- The climate is a photographic copy of Judman; the thirsty fields must be irrigated through the long rainless seasons, cloudless heat, while the ridges of Lebanon, here called the Wahsatch, are covered with snow.
- a rainless summer
- a rainless day
Examples
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In this rainless region, where water falls only at intervals of years, it was necessary to collect and preserve it all, and someone built among the hills huge stone basins with a capacity of hundreds of thousands of gallons.
Blog text (22) -
For thousands of Tibetans in the small hill town of Dharamsala, which has been the capital of the Tibetan diaspora since 1959, the installation created three magical days of reunion under the beautiful, rainless October sky.
Blog text (2) -
Gudge gave Ubri a dirty look, but he did toss the head over the rainless shoulder.
Fiction book (1993) -
She was the color of a rainless cloud, shaded faintly along her back and shoulders with gray.
Fiction book (1998) -
The snow angel winter had crept into a mud-clogged spring, and then had rapidly unwound itself into the rainless summer, where they were now chafing at one another, sunburned, and poor.
Fiction book (1997) -
This section of the Atlantic coast is, in fact, a desert, home to prickly pear, yucca, and the drought-thriving yaupon, so it was not so easy to see the effects of the rainless season, especially for visitors.
Fiction book (1990) -
Behind these are the irregular bowls of masonry set in the clefts at the foot of the rocks, stretching enormous thirsty mouths open to the arid hills and rainless sky.
Blog text (22) -
There was something hideous and brutal in the doom laid upon this unhappy territory, as of a Prometheus chained on the mountain tops; its blood dried to dust in its veins, lifting a scarred face of gray despair to the rainless sky.
Blog text (22) -
The Gulf Coast had a drought that summer, an endless succession of golden, rainless days.
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Because it was being irrigated with water drawn from the river, it grew tall, rich, and green in the midst of a rainless summer.
Antonyms
How Dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rainless is easy to remember: it joins rain and the ending -less, where -less means 'without', so rainless describes a time or place 'without rain'.